Intolerant hippies on the attack again
John Mackey – the founder, CEO and marketing genius behind Whole Foods – finds himself in an organic, unsustainable mess with his carefully cultivated affluent, liberal customer base after penning an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal titled, “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare.”
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:
And then proceeds to list them. The column is definitely worth the read if you’re even a little interested in the subject. In his list are evidently outrageous things like “Enact tort reform” and “Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost.”
This, to the intolerant closed minded brainwashed bubble living freaks of the granola left is completely unacceptable…
Andrew Brietbart notes the absurdity on display here through a Washington Times column on the subject:
Mr. Mackey, a free-market libertarian, is now at the mercy of an unforgiving grass-roots mob intent on destroying his company. More than 25,000 people have signed on to a Whole Foods boycott on Facebook.
“Whole Foods has built its brand with the dollars of deceived progressives,” the online petition reads. “Let them know your money will no longer go to support Whole Foods’ anti-union, anti-health insurance reform, right-wing activities.”
He goes on to note that WholeBoycott.com, features unintentionally comical video testimonials from aggrieved former customers. *yawn*
Greta Van Susteren asks Russell Mokhiber, organizer of a boycott against Whole Foods if CEO John Mackey is a bad guy. “Yeah, I do. Yeah, he’s a bad guy.” Greta, playing defense for the controversial right to disagree tells him”You stun me”. Whole Foods supporter Cyrstal Jones provides balance and sanity in this segment. Greta apologizes to her for having her “horns locked” with the Whole Foods boycott organizer.
More from Breitbarts WashTimes article:
But Mr. Mackey missed the key ingredient of modern liberalism: intolerance to the ideas of nonliberals. And this miscalculation may prove to be devastating to his multibillion-dollar business.
Everywhere one looks these days, the intolerance of self-avowed liberals is on display. Especially since Mr. Obama came to power.
The purportedly open-minded and empathic among us who now run everything – save for NASCAR and Nashville – openly wage war against those who dare disagree.
Some man-on-the-street reactions worth hearing:
Besides, Boycotts are stupid, unless you’re boycotting baseball:
Boycotts are stupid. Well, except my boycott of baseball. But that’s different. It’s not a boycott so much as it is that I just don’t enjoy the sport as much now that I realize that most of the people involved in it have no integrity on the doping issue. Plus, it’s just way too slow. I prefer the fast pace of golf.
But back to boycotts, the Whole Foods boycott really seems odd to me because there is a lot to like about Whole Foods’ philosophy. If you want to encourage small brands that use organic farming — if you want to encourage a different kind of neighborhood store — if you want to encourage less waste from plastic bags — if you want to eat good food … then you shop at Whole Foods. But the CEO has some thoughts on health care that you disagree with, so you throw all that out the window and boycott? That makes no sense to me.
